HD Graphics 3000 and HTML5 (direct2d) GPU acceleration

[idata]

There is as example this test:

http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/Performance/SpeedReading/Default.html http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/Performance/SpeedReading/Default.html

for testing html5 GPU acceleration. There are also other test but the thing is, on my laptop with an i7-2620m performance is extremely poor.

Also tried with newest drivers from OEM and Intel and different browsers. The results are the same:

Around 480 sec.

My desktop with a Radeon 5850 takes 7 seconds, other people with hardware worse than a HD 3000 also take a lot less than 480 sec.

My question is if anyone can repeat my results and determine that this is in fact a driver issue or just a very weak area of HD 3000 Graphics?

thanks!

[plee21]

Hi

With HD4000 graphics 6 seconds, this is using FireFox, and 7 seconds with IE.

Was your laptop connected to the mains? Are the performance settings on Maximum?

Regards

Phil

[BF_]

It's clearly not the 3000 (i5-2500k): 6 seconds here (IE10 in W8). I wonder which browser he was using?

[idata]

FF12 and its a lenovo x220 with i7-2620m.

Actually the first run was unplugged but had the same thought and tried plugged in but withthe same resul. Will try to play with power settings later but I doubt it will have such a huge impact? 480 sec to like 10 sec? I doubt gpu clocks down so much.

[BF_]

You see this in IE9 too (not that a modern FF should have a problem, but this would eliminate some kind of browser configuration issue)?

[idata]

Yes, same in IE9. Also when I disable direct2d in firefox, it get a lot slower than even now. So the GPU does seem to be doing something.

[idata]

Ok, was the Power settings. They were moderate too when plugged in. setting everything to maximum performance:

Test completes in 6 sec